Artist Prompts for the Major Arcana

For my creative followers! 

Here are some Artist’s Prompts for the Major Arcana — poetic, intuitive invitations to create, reflect, and explore your practice through each archetype.

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🎨 Major Arcana Artist Prompts

0. The Fool – The Leap
Create something without planning. Let instinct lead. Collage your chaos. Begin with no end in mind.
✦ Prompt: “What would I make if I wasn’t afraid of looking foolish?”

1. The Magician – The Channel
Use all your tools—pen, pigment, pixels, or voice. Mix mediums. Act like your own muse.
✦ Prompt: “What can I conjure from what I already have?”

2. The High Priestess – The Veil
Create in secrecy. Write or paint something no one will see but you. Explore the hidden.
✦ Prompt: “What truth am I afraid to put into form?”

3. The Empress – The Garden
Make something sensual, soft, indulgent. Let beauty bloom without needing a reason.
✦ Prompt: “What would it look like to create from a place of love, not lack?”

4. The Emperor – The Architect
Design a structure: a grid, a framework, a system for your creativity.
✦ Prompt: “Where do I need form to support my freedom?”

5. The Hierophant – The Key
Translate a personal ritual into visual language. Honor what has been passed down to you.
✦ Prompt: “What tradition am I upholding—and do I still believe in it?”

6. The Lovers – The Mirror
Make something about duality, connection, or choosing between paths.
✦ Prompt: “What part of me do I see reflected in someone else?”

7. The Chariot – The Drive
Create something fast. Limit your time and commit. Let momentum carry you.
✦ Prompt: “Where am I headed—and am I choosing the direction, or being pulled?”

8. Strength – The Quiet Lion
Make something soft and strong. Use vulnerability as your material.
✦ Prompt: “How can I meet my creative resistance with compassion, not control?”

9. The Hermit – The Lantern
Create in solitude. Journal, sketch, wander inward.
✦ Prompt: “What wisdom lives in my silence?”

10. Wheel of Fortune – The Spin
Try something you’ve never tried before. Let chance shape your art.
✦ Prompt: “What happens when I let go of control?”

11. Justice – The Blade
Create something that tells the truth. Use your art to weigh the scales.
✦ Prompt: “What truth have I been avoiding?”

12. The Hanged Man – The Suspension
Flip your perspective. Paint with your non-dominant hand. Write upside down. Surrender.
✦ Prompt: “What do I see differently when I stop trying to fix it?”

13. Death – The Door
Destroy something you love, then rebuild from its ashes.
✦ Prompt: “What am I afraid to let go of creatively?”

14. Temperance – The Alchemy
Blend two unlike things into one. Water and fire. Grief and grace.
✦ Prompt: “Where can I mix instead of choose?”

15. The Devil – The Chain
Create about obsession, temptation, or control. Explore the beautiful trap.
✦ Prompt: “What am I tethered to—and what would freedom look like?”

16. The Tower – The Lightning
Depict collapse. Express the moment everything changed.
✦ Prompt: “What has fallen apart so something truer could rise?”

17. The Star – The Blessing
Make something hopeful, subtle, luminous. Let it be a wish whispered in form.
✦ Prompt: “What keeps glowing even in the dark?”

18. The Moon – The Dream
Draw from dreams, illusions, and half-truths. Embrace mystery.
✦ Prompt: “What part of me still hides in the fog?”

19. The Sun – The Radiance
Create with full joy. Don’t edit. Don’t doubt. Shine.
✦ Prompt: “What does uninhibited expression feel like in my body?”

20. Judgement – The Call
Return to a forgotten project or idea. Reawaken it.
✦ Prompt: “What part of me is asking to be reborn?”

21. The World – The Spiral
Make something that feels like closure—or a beginning disguised as an ending.
✦ Prompt: “What wholeness have I earned?